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VOLUME XVUILEXINOTON KENTUCKY SUNDAY JULY 17th 1910Number 3D 4
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Addresses a Prominent Womans Club
of Cincinnati
Says Woman Should Get Up a New Declaration of
De the Freedom
1 Independence Declaring
of Her Own Brain
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Miudamo President Ladies and
nndI
I Gentlemen
When the invitation was ex
tended to me to address this so I
ciety I was informed that it was
to be a pleasure occasion rather
than a serious afl airitllat the
J program was to consist of sweet
music hy Miss Greenland and
others and they certainly do
grind it out sweet along with
happy recitations and talks of
such character as to make one
1g1 t the unpleasantness of a hot
evening
Accordingly I am here to en
tertain rather than to impart se
rious information
When I asked Mrs Sherwood
what I should talk about she re
plied Oh just anything you
want to say about woman
+ Now that is certainly license
enough and I propose to take ad
vantage of it and will present a
few rambling ideas on woman
some of which need not be taken
too seriously
A seriouslycty went to visit in the
country and at his first meal was
set down to an old time country
V spread j
WtJ atsvedttt u ace tosgc
botibiSCUlts
ham a d rear b e
t1C Mtat routhaftshy I s iil 1
t rdtd11 ti1lltIi1Jy t 1 It
E r things
fried
Then he was offered
f 5 chicken and gravy and peas and
corn on the cobbut again he
i said he didnt want any of them
t things
thingsThen ho was served to ice
i cream cake and berries but he
said ho didnt want them things
nuther Then suit the hostess what in
the world do you want
j Well said the boy I want
somethin I dont git at home
Whnt I want is some pie
i Likewise in this talk of mine
this evening I want to be a little
i 1out of the ordinary and servo
you something you do not always
get at hOllloa strange and rare
kind of pie
J Some years ago I compiled a
book of quotations Among the
subjects selected was that all im
portent and irrepressible one
woman In looking over the thousand
or more quotations gathered on
both lovely and unlovely woman
I note that women in speaking of
woman seldom have anything
bad to say of themselves while in
speaking of them they are great
ly given to exaggeration either
heroizing or lionizing them or
viciously abusing them while
hand equal
men on the other are
ly given to exaggeration either
deifying and augelizing the ladies
or meanly slurring them
Love each other as we may still
there always seem to be a little
war on hand between the sexes
If you would fully comprehend
just
womans infinite variety
read a thousand select quotations
of which she is made the subject
and your brain will soon get into
such a state of bewilderment as
to what woman really is that it
will never be able to extricate it
self from the tangle
Certainly wOman is the mys
hwy of all mysteries The more
you read the more you wonder
and ever stranger and stranger
grows this most complex and in
comprehensible of all creatures
Ono of natures agreeable blun
ders says one writer Ex
tremist in all things says an
other either better or worse than
man either hating or loving for
sho knows no medium
Some one has saidtho great
est study of mankind is man I
deny it The greatest study of
mankind is woman lib w to un
a yy
derstand herhow to get along
with her and how to get along I
without her is the most perplex 1
ing and supreme question of allI
the ages Yes shes a mysterious I
strange creature I
r r r r r I
Strangely wooing are the worlds
above us
Strangely beautiful is the faith of
Islam v
Strangely sweet are the songs of
Solomon
Strangely tender are the teach
ings of Jesus
Strangely cold is the sun on the
mountain
Strangely mellow is the moon in
old ruins
Strangely pleasant are the stolen
waters
Strangely simple and unwooin
is virtue
Strangely lighted is the north
night region
Strangely strong are the streams
in the ocean
Strangely true are the tales of the
Orient
Strangely winning is a darkeyed
widow
Strangely wayward are the ways
of lovci J j A 1
Btt stranger tliAn1 all nr tl
ways ohifuJ s I
r
So wrote Jocquin Miller Such
however is to be expected of a
poet for almost invariably poets
get tangled up in so many heart
affairs that the more they write
about women tho more their
evident bcwilde ment
Now there wa Alexander Pope
who had tli goo grace to say
Of nIl the goo I by fortunes
hands art given
A wifes the r culiar gift of
heaven
Now that w lId have been
very gallant in ope if he had
not also said
Woman at best Is a contradic
tion still
Also
Men some to bu ness some to
pleasure taki
But every woman i at heart a
rake
Mcn some to < quiet owe to pub
lic strife
But every lady wo Jd be queen
for life
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But considering hIT r very bad
ly Pope had been jilted he
should be forgiven fir this and
other like outbursts of revenge
and vituperation
And here comes tho gentle But
wer the Claude Melnottc of Ko
mance worshipping the dear
starlight of womans haunting
o eslist to some of his sweet
speech
speechOh
Oh woman 1 in ordinary cases
so mere a mortal how u the great
and rare events of life dost thou
swell into the angel 1 Ah more
royalty in a womans breast than
dwells within the sceptcred auger
of a hundred kings
Now thats just fino isnt itT
But hear him again
Woman he says is the
filing heaven made for wearing
trinkets and talking scandal and
the only way to keep her from
playing the devil is to encourage
her to play the fool
Now dont he angry ladies for
remember I am licensed to speak
as I please this evening about
woman And dont feel too hard toward
Bulwer for writing such a slam
derous diatribe for he poor fel
low on the very morning he
wrote this may have gotten up
and after a prolonged and vexing
search for his shoes found them
stuck away back under the bed
where he had to gouge for them
with a broom stickor later I
found a hair in the butter or
maybe some of his immortal man
uscript converted into lamplight
ernso you should make allow
ances for all such eruptions and
do not forget there is a limit to
the patience of even a man
Shakespeare who seemingly
could read the utmost thought of
the hidden heart and who con
tinuously elevates woman to the
highest pinnacle of human wor
ship and adoration still was
forced to say
A womans fitness comes by
fits Who is it can read a
woman
Shakespeare married a woman
by the name of Anne Hathaway
and if history can be relied upon
it appears as usual with women
she had her way
When they were married she
was twentyeight ugly plain il
literate and possessed of a bud
temper lIe was eighteentli
lovesick period of youth just
when they are given to penning
verses to their mistresses eye
brows and indulging in listless
longings and heavy depressions
and suffering from they dont
k1 mvjvhat
Jf would look like both of them
L ittio haYe had better sehsgfl
I RJn I1 t rrJSgca tlf
didnt Here we find the greatest ex
ponent of human thought and
feeling in all the world who not
only in youth but ripened by ex
perience still had to admit who
can read a woman
Rightly taken ladies this should
not be regarded as a slim On
the other hand if woman could
he clearly and easily read
she would not only cease to be a
mystery but cease to be Queen of
Hearts and no longer would she
be able to fascinate and bind
the strongest man with a single
hair To he serious ladies did it ever
occur to you that womans best
claim to greatness lies in mans
confessed inability to comprehend
herDid it ever occur to you that as
long as woman remains a mys
tery to men just that long will
she remain a sacred being to him
an angel a divinity The beauty
and spirit which remains long
est uneomprehonded the longest
attracts and charms
Upon a certain great occasion
Shakespeare saidlheres a
tide in the affairs of men which
taken at the flood leads tq for
tune Byron quoting this adds
Theres a tide in the affairs of
woman which taken at the flood
leads God knows where
Now if there was any mail who
knew the secret workings of the
female bloodpump it was Byron
and no one ever sang woman
praises more sweetly still after a
long and vivid experience he was
forced to say
What a strange thing is man
and what a stranger thing is
woman What a whirlwind is
her head and what a whirlpool
full of depth and danger is all the
rest about her I
There was Solomon who cer
tainly hall every opportunity in
the world to judge woman
II A fountain of gardens a well
of living waters he culls her as
well as much other distilled sweet j
ness not mentionable here j
Still with all his vast experi
h1finally
finally concluded allall is vanj
Uy Woman which he knew
the most about of all things still
remained a mighty mystery Still
It seems to me that if it had
iallen to my lot to he blessedwitlf
a thousand wives I never could
have died groaning all is van
ity With the choice ofa thousand
wives Im sure Id a lived a thou
sand lives and having lived so
muchly here it wouldnt have
made much difference to me if I
lived again or not
Nobody but a fool would die
grumbling after having had a
thousand wives and they the pick
of his empire
It used to be I had great sym
pathy for womankind When
father would go to church Sun
days and bring home the preacher
and his wife anda half dozen
other starved loking saints and
set thorn down to a big dinner
mother had been all morning
cooking it did seem to me that I
womankind was getting the wo
of it and she was
But in these later days when
woman has about quit feasting I
the preachers and since they
have driven schoolteachers
bookkeepers stenographers doc
tors druggists and half the rest
of us out of business I am not
nearly so sympathetic as I used
to bo
1 fun like the fellow down in
North Carolina who stole a horse
and was tried for it His lawyer
made such an eloquent plea for
him that he was acquitted After
the trial the lawyer said Now
see here Bill you did steal that
horse didnt you 7
Well judge said Bill in re
ply I used to think that I stole
that horse but since Ive heard
if I
you speak Ill be doggone
aint in doubt about it
Likewise since I have heard
Platt Decker
women like Sarah
and DrShay and DrSiewers and
others speaking and tell how they
have put men out of business in
the past and what they are doing
to them now and what they are
going to do them Ill be doggone
if 1 aint in doubt just as to
a lere I stand on the woman < ques
tion
tionYim women are trying today to
estajilisli sex and political equal
iJ h ttheui owing i I
ytll have imvuy been faun a L
merior
t When the Lord was ready to
put the finishing touches on crea
ion he topped it off with a
woman and as natures master
piece man has ever since regar
> d her
1Be gave the apple to Adam
land he ate thereof and by this
initiative on the part of the wom
h all knowledge came into the
world
worldNot one of the saviors of men
were fathered while all had to be
mothered foil savior it was of
aio importance whether he had a
father or not and this is the
highest compliment religion ever
paid to woman
kIll war men do the fighting and
dying woman always receiving
the first claims to protection
Claiming now to be mans slave
she is first always in his consid
eration
erationIn war of the Trojans
Greek fought Greek for years
just for the possession of a wom
an Helen of Troy When did
the death
woman ever contend to
for the possession of a man
As in the ease of Mark Antony
men have thrown not only life
away but empires just for a
womans love When did man
oilget such worship from a
womanWoman always first and last in
the worship and adoration of
man Why all down along the line the
female gets the best of it Note
the distinction made of eatable
birds and animals chickens
ducks turkeys swine cattle and
sheep The poor male is doomed
to slaughter fattened killed and
eatQH and the female let live All
of which is evidence of course of
the greater need use and import
ance of the female
But nevertheless it is awful
tough on the gentlemen
Wo frequently hear it declared
that we can tell what people ares
by what they eat The reason
woman are so viciously disposed
against men is due to the fact of
their long continued diet of male
meat
montWhen they gilt right mad at us
they could just eat usfrom
habit and I say to you gentlemen
present any further accession to
wer by woman and she is liable
at any moment to fall upon us
Continued on Peg 1
GOD AND JEFFFRIES
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An English View of the Late Prize Fight l
and the Windy Talkfest That rj
Preceded Iti
G W Foote in London Free A
thinker 1
1r
IJugo expressed the conviction t
that whether Redorigo killed t
Cassio or Cassio killed Rodent i
either way suited him Our own 1
idea of the great unprecedent i
ed unparalleled etc encounter c
at Reno in Nevada U S A was 1
something similar Whether the
undefeatablo Jeffries knock J
out the unsubduable Johnson or 5
the unsubduable Johnson knock j
ed out the undefeatable Jeffries f
was all the same to us We could i
not see that the fate of the white j
and black races hang trembling i
in the balance and if we had t
seen it we should have said that 1
the victory must go to the win <
ner Nature doesnt share mans i
prejudices She is perfectly in <
different about the color of the i
upper or the lower dogs skin I
Until the Greeks set up business
none of the ancient civilizations
were white And after the lapse
of more than two thousad years
nature quietly permitted an Asi
atic yellow nation to give a Eu
ropean white nation a remarka
bly sound licking Moreover it
seems likely that Europeans will
have many more lessons taught
them in the not far distant future
by the despised Asiatics and the
tuition may easily extend from
Asia to Africarrrrr
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We are not going to discuss
prizefighting exceptjito say that
raiie rmtftf + Ca iitlS on1 r lyJI
and1 honorably if is 111 display of
prowess on the brute side of hu
man nature What mankind es
pecially wants for its progressive
civilization is not thews or
muscles but 1l0tt A great
painter was asked what he mixed
his colors with With brains
sir was his replyI Mien will
have to mix everything with
brains if they are to rise in the
scale of culture The iiight which
took place at Reno has no rela
tion whatever to the worlds ad
vancement It was primitive
savagery under civilized laws
of expression I
One sinister feature of the
JeffriesJohnson fight was the
presence of hundreds of ladies
heaven save the mark Some
three hundred of the fair sex
were seated in what may be call
ed a reservation the rest were
scattered among the elegant
crowd The phenomenon was
of modern
one of the outcomes
liberty Those who think that
their modesty and
women owe
gentleness to something entirely
innate and not to countless ages
of evolutionary discipline are to j
put it mildly mistaken Give
women their fling and they will
be as bad as men perhaps worse
if we may trust the satire of Ju 1
venal There is truth in the old
proverb that the corruption of J
the best is the worst It may
also be that woman hurts herself
more than man does if she falls
Women most frequently turned
their thumbs for the death of the J
defeated gladiator in the Roman
nor apparently are the
arenas
ladies behind the gentlemen I
in their enjoyment of bloodshed
at a Spanish bullfight
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Jeffries and Johnson both
bragged before the contest but
the white bruiser beat the
black bruiser at that game
The whites indeed are the great
est braggarts on earth and their
religion helps to make them so
las we shall see presently John
s said ho was going to beat
Jeffries and Jeffries said ho was
going to make Johnson sick of
the sight of a boxing glove In
the rivalry of oral egotism Jeff
ries won easily first His sneers
at the nigger sound humiliat
ing now Lot us hope that Jeff
ries white friends will not re
I
vengo themselves with fresh
lynchings Racial hatred is already
in r I
ready most dangerously strong
the United States And it is likely 4r
to grow stronger for if the truth
must be told the white leaderst
have shown and still show an T
utter lack of statesmanship in
dealing with the colored prob
lem They have never gone be a
yond the policy of the sixshooter y ti
Even in religious circles this is
in essence the only policy pur
sued Blacks are not allowed to ±
sit in the same church with t
whites Young Miens Christian
Associations will not admit col
ored members They worship
tho same God are to be saved by
the same blood of Christ and
will have to mix with each other
in heaven but the white believers
will see the black believers fawn
ed before they mix with them on
earth And what does all this 1
prove 1 It proves that religion is
not really a harmonizing influ f
ence that instead of allaying it
exasperates political social and
personal quarrels It was a cyn
ical but soiuul observation of
Swifts that most men have re
ligion enough to make them hate
each othert si P
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We say that blacks and whites
worship the same God but a 1
stranger would hardly think so
Johnsons black friends prayed i
for his victory in the contesti
They held a long prayer neetm g a r
at Brooklyn on the riticaVdayr
NbdtmbtthIJoIt ithi imvi th tho
prayers for the triumph of theho
protagonist were answered Nor
do we see how the whitest theol
t
ogian could contradict them On i
till other hand it appears that
one white clergyman at least m
was satisfied that God was going
to give the victory to Jeffries
refines father the Rev Alexis tti
Jeffries consulted the Lord on
the matter Jim will win he
told an interviewer because the
Lord is on hiside and the Lord
will help him as He helped David
slay Goliath Which is exquis
tely funny when it is recollected
that Jim was the bigger man of
the two The Rev Alexis Jeffries
may get good tips from heaven
to borrow a phrase from Mr f + i
r
Stead hilt he got a rotten one
that tunicA
It
That the Lord God Almightym C
if such a being exist settledt
who should win the honor and
what is of more importance the
> ig stake at Reno is unquestion
able He would not be the Lord
God Almighty if he did notuJ
the Lord do all these things a 1
The party who knocked Jeffriesa
but Tehov
out was not Johnson
ah1 Johnson was only the human
agent that Jehovah employed for
the purpose This is firstrate
heology though we dont ex
pect the U white trash to recog
lize it Their opinion is that if
3od doesnt back their main he
will remain neutral They argue s
on that basis throughout Melt
do this everywhere When they +
win God is with them when theya r
lose God is not with the enemy
their defeat is either an accident
or the work of the Devil Any
t11ing else would mean that they
were not everybody and what
religionists could ever believe
that
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11r W T Stead whose tips
from heaven used to be famous
seems to have a new one yhilo
the undeniably
admitting that
attractive power of a fight was a
difficulty in the way of peace
ropaganda ho said one evening
at Browning Hall thnt
There were may evidences to
show that America in time hands
of divine providence was destin
ed to become the bannerhearer
in the march of the worlds civil
ization and to be the power for
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